The Tom Cruise Crazy Train shows no signs of slowing down, with the latest stop on the cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine's "Holiday/Reinvention" issue. It's like we went back three years, when Cruise kept discussing how much he loves Katie Holmes. Look, Tom, we get that you're "happy" or whatever, but it might be a bit more believable if you weren't so over the top about it all.
About his robotic wife, Tom revealed that he took things slow:
'I knew I wanted to marry Kate when I met her.'
When Holmes confessed to him that she dreamed of marrying him as a little girl, 'I said I wouldn't want to disappoint her,' Cruise says. So, the actor says, he bought Holmes an engagement ring shortly after their first date in 2005.
'At one point, I thought she was going to ask me to marry her first and I put her off by changing the subject,' Cruise adds. 'I wanted to ask her.'
For our fellow Office fans, remember the "awww" you let out when Jim showed off his engagement ring for Pam, admitting that he bought it a week after they started dating? That's not the same feeling we get when Tom Cruise says basically the same thing. Not at all.
Flavor of Love/Charm School/I Love Money contestant Pumkin (real name: Brooke Thompson) officially announced her engagement to security guard Evan Doty, proving even washed up reality show losers can find love. The couple will be married next April, if they can make it that long.
After the jump: Our favorite moment from Pumkin, from the season of Flavor of Love that started VH1's horrible obsession with these deadbeats.
Former Playboy harem member Kendra Wilkinson has finally escaped the feeble clutches of ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, but her new fiance, professional football player Hank Baskett, won't stop talking about the old man:
Hef is like a father to her so he's going to be the one to give her away. That's why I wanted his blessings and her mom's blessing.
Uh, excuse us? Her former boyfriend is like a father to her? And Hank needed to get his blessing before proposing? Run, Hank. Far, far away from all these crazy, messed up people.
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In news that makes us happier than it should, Ryan Gosling is reportedly planning to propose to girlfriend and The Notebook co-star Rachel McAdams. Squee! All is right in the world. According to a source:
Ryan has already bought her the perfect ring — whether it's a present or for a pending engagement, I cannot say. What I do know is that they have been looking at houses together in Toronto and LA and are ready to take the next step. … They've been through a lot over the past couple years, but have survived it all. It's getting very serious, very quickly!
Um, yeah. This person doesn't sound very reliable, but we plan on eating cookie dough and watching The Notebook to reminisce anyway.
• When did Fashion Week become so scary? [ICYDK]
• Why Sharon Stone is Mother of the Year: She wanted to inject Botox into her 8-year-old son's feet. [Yeeeah]
• Alicia Keys and Jack White make terrible music videos together. [DListed]
• We refuse to believe that Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are shopping for engagement rings. [PS]
• Justin Timberlake is a good boyfriend. [HT]
• Aubrey O'Day has standards, y'all. [INO]
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'Tis a sad day for the hags: Mollygood crush Ryan Reynolds wed Scarlett Johansson in a small ceremony in Vancouver over the weekend. Take a few moments to let this news sink in. We'll continue when you're ready.
This is a tough blow because the couple had been engaged for only four months — not a proper amount of time to process and grieve. We give all of you Reynolds lovers permission to take the day off from work, and support group information will be distributed in the near future.
Stay strong.
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Jennifer Hudson became a star with her longtime, regular-guy boyfriend by her side, but, you know, things change. She's now getting married to a reality show contestant who competed for the affections of Tiffany "New York" Pollard. Upgrade!
Bust out the pints of Ben and Jerry's: 48-year-old Michael Lohan reportedly proposed to his girlfriend Erin Muller who, at 24, comes in at half his age. Sounds like true love to us. (Although, looking at the picture, we have a sneaking suspicion she's a little older than that. Or perhaps she's been spending all her time in a tanning bed.)
According to sources, "they're keeping [the engagement] quiet for the moment," which must be a lie because Michael Lohan couldn't keep something quiet if the world depended on it.
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The Matt Grant edition of The Bachelor wasn't any more entertaining than every other season, but the breakup is proving otherwise. Former fiance (and constant famewhore) Shayne Lamas told People magazine about her plans for the engagement ring, purchased by ABC: She's keeping it "safe and clean and in a glass box — like a glass slipper." Also? Matt is totally on board with the idea and even "wants to come over and look at it."
Naturally, the magazine then got a response from Matt, because this is middle school and two adults can't just decide what to do with a piece of jewelry without using the media as a go-between. And, of course, Matt says he never spoke with Shayne about the subject.
We never discussed this. I never said it was cool to just keep it. If she said we spoke about it, she just made it up. Sometimes she thinks she can say anything and I’ll go along with it.
It wasn’t a ‘gift’ so much. It’s not a television or a handbag. It’s a symbol of marriage that didn’t happen. … Let’s have something good come out of this. Why hold onto it? What’s the point?
Matt wants to auction off the ring, valued at $65,000, and give the proceeds to charity. This, of course, will never happen, because then the spotlight would no longer be on Shayne, and we can't have that, can we?
BAD NEWS, LADIES "Sean 'Diddy' Combs is giving marriage a chance. The bachelor father of six is quietly telling close friends and family that he and singer Cassandra 'Cassie' Ventura are heading to the chapel."
Yes, the woman at right is missing a limb, as are the ladies below. Because of this, each and every day they are faced with unique obstacles most of the rest of the world will never understand, and they're certainly all the stronger because of it. Good for them. But we've got one question: How pretty are they compared to one another?
A new show on the BBC seeks to get to the bottom of that query, so that the world may finally know who is the most beautiful, English, female amputee around. Or, as the Britain's Missing Top Model Web site puts it, "Eight young disabled women discover what it takes to be a model - but which of them will win a photo shoot and appear in a top fashion magazine?"
In the words of one William Corgan: The world is a vampire.
KIND OF STUPID "Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Honsou are 'kind of' engaged, she tells People. … Asked if Honsou had given her an engagement ring, Simmons was equally forthcoming — and evasive. 'Well, kind of,' she said, 'not quite.'"
TAKING THE PLUNGE "Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford has proposed to long-term girlfriend Calista Flockhart of Ally McBeal fame."
It's happening: Us Weekly's "exclusives" with Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt came to fruition this week with a huge cover story detailing the couple's reconciliation and plans to marry (again). Heidi says she changed her mind about calling off their previous engagement because she realized Spencer is her soulmate. Also? Because she gets more attention — and money — this way. But, for a minute, let's pretend all this isn't completely fabricated:
What changed? On-and-off beau Spencer Pratt convinced her to plan their wedding again during a secret make-or-break getaway to Mexico.
'Heidi read me biblical passages like "Honor thy wife,"' says Pratt.
… Nope, can't do it. Too ridiculous.
During a recent concert at NYC's Cutting Room, Alanis Morissette spoke to the audience about how she's not in the least bit bothered by ex-fiance Ryan Reynolds' new engagement to Scarlett Johansson:
Every time I go through something difficult, I think, this is the mother lode. I’m not going to get through this one. And then six months later I’m like, what’s his name again?
Yeah, because that doesn't sound bitter at all.
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So was I the only person who watched last night's Bachelor season finale? British Matt proposed to Shayne, the 22-year-old daughter of Lorenzo Lamas and this lovely creature. She's also an actress, but I don't need to tell you that — the clip above does all the talking. Watch as Shayne shows off her "shocked" and "in love" faces and delivers her lines, all the while making sure she doesn't let the camera see up her dress. It would be sweet if it didn't all sound so scripted. I give them two months.
JOHANSSON, REYNOLDS ENGAGED "After dating for more than a year, Scarlett Johansson is set to marry her boyfriend Ryan Reynolds, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. 'They're both thrilled,' Johansson's rep Marcel Pariseau tells PEOPLE."
• Leather daddy will forever be a good look. Well done, Travolta. [CityRag]
• "Scientology boot camp is probably filled with a bunch of suppressed homos that are just aching to get their jaws around any cock and ass." [DListed]
• Another Spears girl is on the way. And this one will have many more issues than the first two. Huzzah! [PS]
• Patrick Dempsey is campaigning to win the title of "Sexiest Man Alive" this year, which is not the least bit sexy. [INO]
• Benji Madden wrote Paris Hilton a love song entitled "Shine Your Light." It's probably not very good and definitely not original, but Paris only knows what's in front of her, so she loves it. [ICYDK]
• Is Mariah Carey really engaged to Nick Cannon? Thank goodness those two are out of the dating pool! [Yeeeah]
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